So to embed an in line image then we must have our own web site (or is there a 3rd party site somewhere where we can upload images like YouTube does for videos). Only other alternative is to attach the image in our post as an attachment which then appears at the end of the page and so we need to post more pages just to get the image in a sensible place.

I've seen several (old) posts that link to an image that no longer exists - maybe the robot'eer no longer uses that web provider so his url and image are now broken.

The member forum allows us to upload files for the tutorials so can the forum software allow us to upload images and then reference them simply in our own posts?

PS I realise that this leaves you open to uploading of GBs of useless spam and other admin work - but is it an option? (I guess I've answered my own question with a NO!)

The problem is all that crap youtube likes to append at the end of a video link. Just delete everything after the & sign.

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I really don't like this fact, because it won't let me force options like default to HD.

The mod I use used to allow resolution selection. It was disabled in the version I'm using now for some reason, and the most recent version refuses to install. When I upgrade the forum to v2, I'll reenable this feature if I can.

I can force it to be HD by default, but a majority of people still have bandwidth issues (like me).

Unless i missed the big announcement otherwise, Apple doesn't support generic flash. They have 'plug-ins' that will render some stuff like youtube using there own software, but it has to be able to 'pick out' that there is a youtube video on the page. The SMF software running SOR doesn't use the regular youtube embed html code; it generates it's own whenever a poster just drops the youtube url into the post.